Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose...
...many hours later those same newsmen and photographers rode up the Bay. Once more in their respective newspaper offices, they were greeted by skeptic city editors with the usual dubious grunts. Conversation in one Manhattan city-room ran something like this...
...Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
...lamps that brought unseemly beads of perspiration to the delegates' potent brows they signed the two documents alphabetically according to countries. Germany (Allemague) first signed the French copy, Belgium the English. For the benefit of the sound photographers, the obliging delegates scratched extra loudly with their pens. Eight minutes later the last signature was affixed. Chairman Young spoke as follows...
...Later, Banker Moreau remarked: "The report is not entirely satisfactory to any one country. Therefore it is highly satisfactory to all." Mr. Young rushed back to his rooms to finish packing...